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Your Data With Destiny - Advertising Age
your data with destiny pointing the way for marketers in a post-advertising age by bob garfield published: september 15, 2008 "i have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear watson," said he.
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The Resale End Of Retail
sales are up at thrift shops, but donations are lagging.
www.capecodonline.com

Watch The Mountain Home Skies For Air Show
military muscle will rule the blue yonder over mountain home air force base during the 2008 gunfighter skies air show on saturday and sunday. "events like these are important because they allow the public an up close look at what they've paid for," said retired col. bill richy.
www.magicvalley.com

Archive For: September, 2008 - Zdnet Blogs
you know that microsoft ad campaign we’ve been discussing here? bill and jerry? churros and toe-nail clippings? yeah, the $300 million one. that’s the one. it appears that the reactions to the first two commercials are just what microsoft ...
blogs.zdnet.com

The Resale End Of Retail - Cape Cod Times
new york — while america's best-known retail chains are pulling out all the stops to lure shoppers and bolster their abysmal sales, their customers are defecting to an unlikely rival: the local thrift shop. the must-have item for fall, it turns out ...
www.capecodonline.com

On The Record / September 12, 2008
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For Thrift Shops, New Demand Is A Mixed Bag
the same economic woes that are sending buyers to thrift stores way are causing donors to hand over fewer items, so that many stores are running low on inventory.
www.nytimes.com

Toronto: "slumdog" Bites Prize - Los Angeles Times Blogs
as the 2008 edition of the toronto international film festival drew to a close, during a saturday afternoon awards luncheon it was announced that “slumdog millionaire,” directed by danny boyle, was the winner of the cadillac people’s choice ...
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Obama Campaign Mocks Mccain's Computer Illiteracy - Wired
barack obama's campaign released a new television ad friday that mocks john mccain for being out of touch with voters' lives and the economy. the ad uses mccain's admission earlier this year that he's computer illiterate as a sign that he's been ...
blog.wired.com

On The Move
star7 advertising hired damir paulic as designer. rdg partners advertising moved to 6655 s. tenaya way.
www.lvbusinesspress.com

The Story Of O
when consumers like deb poe speak, marketers listen. last month, the well-heeled mother of three was shopping at a dominick's supermarket in the chicago suburb of oak park, ill. when she reached for a bag of o organics whole wheat pasta.
brandweek.com

Air-powered Car Coming To U.s. In 2009 To 2010 At Sub-$18,000, Could ... - Popular Mechanics
the citycat, already being developed in india (bottom left), will be available for u.s. production in three different four-door styles. but it's the radical dual-energy engine, with a possible 1000-mile range at 96 mph, that could move the air car ...
www.popularmechanics.com

Celebrity Baby Blog - Celebrity Baby Blog
if you're anything like us, you're probably sick of hearing about "going green." we are inundated with products and info on lessening our carbon footprint and helping to save the planet. i assure you, this is not a bad thing. the problem is in the ...
www.celebrity-babies.com

Thrift Shops Prosper Amid U.s. Economic Woes
while the best-known retail chains are pulling out all the stops to lure shoppers and bolster abysmal sales, their customers are defecting to an unlikely rival: the local thrift shop.
www.iht.com

Online Auctions, Part 2: The Ebay Diaspora
online auction site ebay grew up on the receipts of smaller-scale sellers. now, as the san jose, calif.-based company reaches out to larger, big-volume dealers, some of those original core customers are drifting away. some sellers have moved on to competitors such as amazon.com, said charles king, principal analyst with pund-it.
www.technewsworld.com

Items Pertaining To East Harriet Neighborhood - Southwest Journal
like struggling neighborhoods across minneapolis, whittier battled urban blight through the neighborhood revitalization program (nrp). "particularly to a neighborhood like whittier that was pretty desolate, pretty delinquent, nrp really gave it back ...
www.swjournal.com

Community Calendar - Pittsburgh Channel
what makes invisible village theatre unique is that many of the actors in psycho-active are in various stages of recovery from mental illness. the other performers are support staff with mercy behavioral health, which funds the theater company as ...
www.thepittsburghchannel.com

Revenue Science Kicks Off Shopping Season With New Holiday Behavioral Segments
revenue science, the leading provider of targeted advertising solutions for digital media, today announced that it is offering several new unique behavioral segments to help advertisers effectively reach and influence holiday shoppers.
biz.yahoo.com

Capstone Turbine Signs Agreement To Supply Its Proprietary Air Bearing Technology To Barber-nichols
capstone turbine corporation (nasdaq:cpst) (www.microturbine.com), the world's leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced today that it has signed a supply agreement with barber-nichols, inc. for capstone's air bearing technology for use in non-competitive equipment manufactured and sold by barber-nichols.
www.centredaily.com

What's Really In Your Food? - Common Dreams
food labels were designed to earn our trust. since 1990, the food and drug administration has required manufacturers to list the ingredients of their products, and more recently, "nutrition facts" boxes appear on everything from cereal to chewing gum ...
www.commondreams.org